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  2. Papyromancy - Wikipedia

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    Papyromancy is a way of divination through folding paper. Some say a true papyromancer can crumple up any piece of paper, unfold it, and predict the future from the creased lines [1] reading the creased paper the way that a palm reader would read a person's palm. Another form of papyromancy is done by folding an illustrated piece of paper and ...

  3. Peace for our time - Wikipedia

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    The phrase is primarily remembered for its bitter ironic value since less than a year after the agreement, Germany's invasion of Poland began World War II. It is often misquoted as "peace in our time", a phrase already familiar to the British public by its longstanding appearance in the Book of Common Prayer .

  4. Said Hanrahan - Wikipedia

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    And chewed a piece of bark. "We want a inch of rain, we do," O'Neil observed at last; But Croke "maintained" we wanted two To put the danger past. "If we don't get three inches, man, Or four to break this drought, We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "Before the year is out." In God's good time down came the rain; And all the afternoon

  5. Teachers from Calif. high school read mean tweets aloud

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    It appears to be a new trend for taking criticism or praise. Teachers from a California high school read aloud tweets about themselves, purportedly written by students. "Good Morning America ...

  6. Broadside ballad - Wikipedia

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    A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Britain, Ireland and North America because they ...

  7. Read All About It - Wikipedia

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    Read All About It!, a 1979-1980 Canadian educational television series; Read All About It, a 1945 film featuring Derek Gorst; Read All About It, a 1974-1979 BBC books programme "Read All About It", an episode of the Canadian-American children's television series Caillou.

  8. This Is Just to Say - Wikipedia

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    This Is Just to Say (Wall poem in The Hague) "This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it were a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [2] [3]

  9. ‘Fortnight’ lyrics meaning: Taylor Swift just explained what ...

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    No, it’s not about the video game. “Fortnight,” the first single from Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” is a duet with Post Malone.. Before we delve into the lyrics, let ...